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- 20th Oct 2016
Poverty and decision-making: How behavioural science can improve opportunity in the UK
A third of the UK population spent at least one year in relative income poverty between 2011 and 2014. Traditionally policymakers and anti-poverty organisations such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) have focused on boosting people’s economic capital (e.g., income) and human capital (e.g., educational attainment) to reduce poverty. While…
- Blog
- 31st Oct 2016
Building Character Skills – What Works?
A wide variety of skills are needed for success in life. The traditional focus of policymakers on academic achievement as a marker of people’s talents can cause them to miss the importance of non-cognitive skills, also called character skills. There is now growing evidence that these skills – which include things…
- Blog
- 14th Nov 2016
Transformation and Inspiration - the EEF at 5
This week the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) celebrated its fifth birthday. Over the course of a few short years, the EEF has achieved truly remarkable things. One hundred randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in education have been commissioned by the EEF in that time – orders of magnitude more than had…
- Person
Dr Patrick Taylor
Paddy is a Principal Research Advisor. He is Head of Research for our Home Affairs, Social Cohesion and Education team, supporting the design, improvement and evaluation of complex interventions in these fields. Paddy has a PhD from the School of Public Policy, University College London, investigating the effects of voluntary…
- Blog
- 8th Mar 2017
Behavioural insights to boost apprenticeships
What do National Apprenticeship Week, National British Sandwich Week, and National Bed Month all have in common? Behavioural science has an answer. These are all attempts to raise the salience of their particular cause, encouraging awareness and timely decision-making, whether it’s to hire an apprentice or eat a British sandwich.…
- Blog
- 24th Mar 2017
Supportive text messaging to encourage student success
Today, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has announced that they are funding three interventions to help improve outcomes for 16-18-year-old students who are resitting their GCSEs. We are excited that the social support intervention we’ve developed is one of them. Many of us might take for granted that someone in…
- Blog
- 31st Mar 2017
Inspirational students encourage university applications
Young people from lower income families, or families without a history of university attendance, are much less likely to apply to university than their peers, even when they get the grades to do so (Anders, 2012). They’re also particularly less likely to apply to selective universities - despite these universities…
- Publication
- 31st Mar 2017
Encouraging People into University
Results from a randomised controlled trial that found that sending letters to young people influences their behaviour when applying to university.
- Academic publication
- 19th Apr 2017
I get by with a little help from my friends: Two field experiments on social support and attendance in further education colleges in the UK
In recent years, there has been an increasing recognition that broader socioeconomic and environmental conditions such as school climate and the availability of peer, parental, and tutor support shape motivation and educational success as much as, or more than, individual-level factors such as personality.
- Academic publication
- 20th Apr 2017
Using text reminders to increase attendance and attainment: Evidence from a field experiment
In a large-scale field experiment, we use text message reminders to increase student attendance and attainment within UK government-sponsored literacy and numeracy programs for adults.